Relief fund: Government employees to donate salaries

Sindh govt employees to contribute salary to newly created Chief Minister’s Relief Fund for Rain-Affected People.

KARACHI:

Sindh government employees, including district staff, will be contributing a portion of their salary to the newly created Chief Minister’s Relief Fund for Rain-Affected People.

Government employees of grade 16 and above will contribute one day’s salary and all provincial ministers and advisers will give one month’s salary. All Sindh MPAs will donate a week’s salary.

While announcing this fund, the chief minister expressed his displeasure with the performance of the livestock department. While estimates are only initial, people across the rain-hit areas have reported heavy losses of livestock. The CM said that vaccination and treatment work must be started in these areas to save the animals that have survived.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 11^th, 2011.